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Around Melbourne, invasive plant removal usually means Brazilian pepper. It grows into a wall of tangled branches along fence lines, lot edges, ditches and canal banks. Left alone, it crowds out native plants and can swallow the back of a lot. Our Brazilian pepper removal is mechanical work, mostly with attachments on our skid steer.
The disc mulcher grinds the brush where it stands, and the tree puller lifts the trunks out with their roots. Melaleuca and Australian pine, two more invasive trees, come out the same way or with an excavator. When the whole lot needs clearing, our land clearing in Melbourne covers it. Call or text (904) 719-0443 for a free quote in writing.
Tell us about the lot or acreage, the work you need and where it is. We look at the job and put a free quote in writing.
A Brazilian pepper thicket hides short trunks inside a dense head of twisted branches. The plant can reach 33 feet tall. The disc mulcher on the skid steer grinds the branches and smaller stems, which opens the thicket up. It is the same machine behind our forestry mulching.
The tree puller does the rest. Its jaws clamp each trunk, and the skid steer lifts it out of the ground with the roots. Bigger trunks and old stumps come out with an excavator, the same way they do on a full lot clearing. Pulling roots disturbs the soil, and Florida law requires a Sunshine 811 notice at least 2 full business days ahead.
Where pepper is mixed into tall grass and brush, the hydraulic brush mower cuts the whole area down. The cut brush can stay as a mulch layer, or it can leave with our debris removal.
Brazilian pepper came to Florida from South America as a yard plant. Cold hurts it, so UF/IFAS, the University of Florida's extension service, finds it more abundant in south and coastal Florida. Birds and mammals eat its bright red berries and spread the seeds. A trip through a bird's gut raises a seed's odds of sprouting.
It also comes back from what stays in the ground. UF/IFAS warns of vigorous resprouting from any tissue left behind. Pulling or digging a plant out can work, it says, when the entire root system comes with it. Mowing or mulching alone leaves the roots in place to sprout again.
It flowers from September through November, and the berries are usually ripe by December. If you can pick the timing, UF/IFAS says to cut it when it is not fruiting. Seeds in the berries can grow into new plants. Birds will keep bringing seed from pepper nearby, so check cleared ground for seedlings on a regular basis.
Brazilian pepper is on Florida's Noxious Weed List, kept by the state agriculture department. Melaleuca, Australian pine, air potato and cogongrass are on the same list. A state law, section 369.251, bars selling, moving, growing or keeping Brazilian pepper without a state permit. The same section exempts control and disposal work when there is no danger of spreading the plant.
Melbourne's city code lists Brazilian pepper among its prohibited trees, and removing one takes no permit or fee. When commercial, industrial, institutional or larger multifamily land is developed or redeveloped, the code requires all invasive plants removed.
In unincorporated Brevard County, removing invasive plants is exempt from the land clearing permit. Wetlands, shoreline protection buffers and the coastal construction setback line are the exception. There, the exemption covers hand-clearing only, and the roots stay in the ground. Any other method needs review under a small scale land clearing permit.
Call or text for a written quote. We work about 150 miles around Melbourne, across the Space Coast and Treasure Coast and north to Daytona Beach.
(904) 719-0443From the first call or text to the finished work, here is how it goes.
Call or text (904) 719-0443 and tell us where the land is and what you plan to do with it. A rough size helps too.
We come out to see the growth and how the machines can reach it. Then we put your free quote in writing.
We settle the plan for your lot, and we walk you through which permits apply to it. Florida law calls for a Sunshine 811 notice at least 2 full business days before digging starts.
The disc mulcher and the brush mower take the growth down. The tree puller lifts trees and stumps out of the ground, roots and all. An excavator comes in for ponds and lot leveling.
We haul the debris off or leave the mulch on the ground, whichever you chose. You get back a smooth lot, ready for the build or the pasture.
Common questions about invasive plant removal around Melbourne and the rest of the Space Coast. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
We plan the clearing with you before any machine runs. Then we get your raw lot ready for a new house or barn.
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Pole barn shops, garages, barns and barndominium shells, with insulated options and fencing. We clear the land and level the pad before the first post goes in.
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The disc mulcher on our skid steer grinds palmetto and small trees into mulch where they stand. The wood stays on the lot, and the ground stays covered.
Learn MoreWe own the skid steer and the attachments it runs. The disc mulcher and the brush mower take the growth down, and the tree puller lifts out stumps.
We look at the land with you and talk through what stays and what goes. Then the free quote comes to you in writing.
Debris is hauled off or mulched in place, whichever the plan calls for. The ground is left smooth and ready for construction.
Send us the location and what you want cleared, and we will reach out to set a time. You can also call or text (904) 719-0443.
Tell us about the lot or acreage, the work you need and where it is. We look at the job and put a free quote in writing.